Maybe of use with current usage and foundational concepts:
https://interskill.com/course/z-vm-introduction-and-concepts-z-vm-7-4/

Don't know if Lynn Wheeler is on this list, but he is active on Facebook
and Linkedin and knows a lot about early VM.

HTH!

Lee Courtney

On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 12:31 AM Steve Lewis via cctalk <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I was trying to track down some kind of image/photo of "what IBM VM/370
> looks like" (the operating system)
>
> I tried looking also in the IBM manuals - I'm just not finding much.   Some
> kind of image of what maybe a remote login looked like, a task process
> list, or maybe basic file/folder management commands, or how an editor or
> programming worked on that system.
>
> There is a bit of media with a VM/370 emulator, but I wasn't sure how
> accurately representative it was of a kind of "look and feel" of that OS.
>
> What I'd need is maybe photographs of teletype printouts?  This was still
> early 1970s.  Which is understandable not much of that was probably kept
> around.
>
>
> Thanks, just digging around - like wasn't sure if VM/370 was still
> six-character filename limited like earlier 60s era OS's, or whatever
> characteristics it had in operating it.
>
>
> -Steve
>


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